NEWPORT — A Cherry Point Marine died Saturday when the motorcycle he was riding on N.C. 24 near Pender Park Fuel Market in Carteret County T-boned a pickup truck that pulled into his path.

David Christopher Sandmeyer, 21, of Minnesota, was driving east by the service station across from the trailer park when a truck driven by Lou Millow Cacal, 72, who lives nearby, exited the station into his path.

Investigating State Highway Patrol Trooper R.O. Melby said, “Cacal told me that he had been stopped waiting as a funeral procession went by and, when it was through, he came out and didn’t see the motorcycle.”

“Sandmeyer was ejected to the north side of the road,” Melby said. He was alive when first responders from Broad and Gales Creek Fire and EMS responded, but died at the scene.

Cacal was not hurt in the wreck.

Melby said Sandmeyer was not married and his parents have been notified.

It had rained there earlier Saturday, but Melby said that weather did not contribute to the incident.

“It’s a bad little area there,” Melby said of the wreck location. “It’s not the first fatality there. I know of two and there may have been more.”

The trooper said he is waiting for response from the district attorney’s office on whether Cacal will face any charges.